It is almost certain that if you attended elementary school at any time after 1950 in the United States, you learned cursive writing from a teacher who was wholly unqualified to teach it. That’s ...

But just as those aren’t enough to impose learning Roman numerals on all schoolchildren, cursive’s time is up, now that all people will spend so much less time writing by hand.

A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican ...

Examples of cursive writing date back to the time of the Romans, but like Latin, cursive writing appeared to be a dying form of communication. With people typing more rather than writing, cursive ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in all public and private ...

Context. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

Cursive writing was so yesterday in California, ... But to the Rivera sisters, it might as well have been Latin. “I didn’t know how to read it,” said Sierra, 8, ...

Font types like Times Roman, ... Now, a total of 23 states require some form of cursive writing instruction while five more (Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada and Wisconsin) ...

Cursive writing was so yesterday in California, ... But to to the Rivera sisters, it might as well have been Latin. “I didn’t know how to read it,” said Sierra, 8, ...

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.